Updates, photos, and information about the recent creature sightings at Haystack Rock

Friday, September 2, 2016

A strange fish caused great excitement at the Rock this last week. A visitor came
to the truck to say he'd "found a stingray." When one of our volunteers got
to the tidepool, only the eyes in the photo were visible. The fish stayed buried in the sand with only its eyes exposed
for about two hours as its pool shrank and warmed. An occasional puff
of breath stirred the sand in front of its face. Many visitors stepped
to the edge of the pool to stare at its eyes. When the tide came back in
and refreshed the pool, the mystery fish finally rose from the sand. It
swam around and then reburied itself. The mystery fish is oval, translucent, and this one is about two inches long. Can you guess what species it is?